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Abraham Flexner: The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge, with an introduction by Robbert Dijkgraaf

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780691174761. $9.95.

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  1. Conant to Archibald MacLeish, quoted in James Hershberg, James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age, (New York: Knopf, 1993), p. 114.

  2. Heather Douglas, “Pure Science and the Problem of Progress,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A, 46: 55–63.

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Reisch, G. Abraham Flexner: The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge, with an introduction by Robbert Dijkgraaf. Ethic Theory Moral Prac 20, 1083–1085 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9846-6

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